- both Neku and Riku team up with the Dream Eaters
- Neku is caught in a game that leaves him just 43 minutes to win or die
- Neku asks Sora to be partners, but eventually decides Sora is too weird and leaves
- Sora follows Neku and encounters a boss battle set in a cul-de-sac of Traverse Town
- TGS demo features a brief story set-up, a few set encounters, and a boss fight
- Riku interacts with Quasimoto from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Riku has a double-jump
- may not have a camera lock-on button
- both characters have magic skills such as Cura and Blizzaga
- perform special Dual Link attacks with partners by pressing Y
- Dual Link skills are context-sensitive
- they also vary according to your current partners, enemies, and positioning
- use different skills while on the ground or in the air
- the Holy Rope is a series of nodes placed around battlefields
- pressing A and X while near one of these Holy Rope points freezes the action and allows you to use the touch screen to draw connections between points on the area map
- this will send Sora or Riku dashing through the air along the that course
- using the Holy Rope paths to intersect foes allows you to pull off standard or special attacks that would otherwise be out of reach